What made you start to support Liverpool and when?

[New York Red]

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[Zoob]

Dalglish and Rush playing God like football c. 1983. I'd never had a particularly great interest in football until I saw those 2 playing together. It was like they were playing a different game from everybody else.

[R A Softlad]

My old man taking me to my first game at the age of 5. March 16, 1977.

[Guest Portly]

1964/65 season, I was in the 6th form at Quarry Bank. My mate Tony was a big Liverpool fan and persuaded me to go to an evening league match against Sheffield United. After that, I was hooked. It was a good year to start supporting Liverpool because it was the season we won the FA Cup for the first time. I went to every match of our cup run - including the Final. Tony didn't get a ticket - he let me go first through the turnstile on the Kop and I was given a voucher that qualified for a Final ticket. Tony wasn't that amused but he took it like a man.

[New York Red]

  R A Softlad said:

My old man taking me to my first game at the age of 5. March 16, 1977.

 

Oh jeez. It wasn't Leeds was it? That was my first ever game for LFC.

[Ramón Benítez Hernández]

When I was a little fat kid, I wanted to be goalkeeper. When Liverpool signed a Zimbabwean, there was only one team I was going to support.

Edited August 11, 2007 by B.A.Baracus

[Jay Blizzay]

John 'Blizzay' Barnes.

[New York Red]

  B.A.Baracus said:

When I was a little fat kid, I wanted to be goalkeeper. When Liverpool signed a Zimbabwean, there was only one team I was going to support.

 

Why hello there my old mucker!!!! How are ya? I may be down your way next year to visit my sis. She's in Worongary. How ya been?

 

I'm guessing that you haven't been back to Cardiff lately -- scairdy cat

[Puma]

Watching a live match from Hilsborough. Always had a soft spot for Liverpool but watching the images streaming ......

[Ramón Benítez Hernández]

  New York Red said:

Why hello there my old mucker!!!! How are ya? I may be down your way next year to visit my sis. She's in Worongary. How ya been?

 

I'm guessing that you haven't been back to Cardiff lately -- scairdy cat

 

 

If it wasn't for Brucie, I'd have been a Swansea City fan.

 

Worongary's somewhere near the Gold Coast is it? That is not far from me.

 

 

Let me know when you're in town, so I can pick you up for Mosque.

[fyds]

Probably mentioned this before, but anyway...

 

Since the demise of my natural parents, I'd lived in a few homes as they worked out how to put me up for adoption. I remember one had a donkey - don't know why that sticks, but it does. Anyway - by one route or another, finally a working class Liverpool family who already had twin boys, an older boy and who had no less than two lots of stillborn female twins decided it was better to adopt than to risk pregnancy again, which is how they came to see me (I was unaware) at one of these homes - this despite the fact of already having three sons and fostering four others.

 

The day came when, prior to an adoption being formally begun, I was to go and stay with them. I was to be delivered to them on a Saturday, sometime in (I think) January 1963. To avoid problems with the route, it was agreed to meet somewhere easy to find. The place chosen was the carpark area behind the main stand at Anfield. After getting lost in the snow, we eventually found my Dad-to-be freezing his nuts off on the street outside the ground. As I was handed over in good humour by my social worker, there was a massive roar as Liverpool had just scored (we discovered this later) and the singing started. I was hooked, and have been ever since. It was not long at all before I went to my first game (the first I can remember clearly was against Arsenal, but my elder adoptive brother insisted he had taken me to at least two before that).

[New York Red]

  B.A.Baracus said:

If it wasn't for Brucie, I'd have been a Swansea City fan.

 

Worongary's somewhere near the Gold Coast is it? That is not far from me.

Let me know when you're in town, so I can pick you up for Mosque.

 

Count me in mate. Yep, it's by the Gold Coast. I know how to do the Mosque stuff.

 

Do you have a local Khat man?

[LFCNeil90]

For me it was Jamie Redknapp, Robbie Fowler and then Michael Owen.

[New York Red]

  fyds said:

Probably mentioned this before, but anyway...

 

Since the demise of my natural parents, I'd lived in a few homes as they worked out how to put me up for adoption. I remember one had a donkey - don't know why that sticks, but it does. Anyway - by one route or another, finally a working class Liverpool family who already had twin boys, an older boy and who had no less than two lots of stillborn female twins decided it was better to adopt than to risk pregnancy again, which is how they came to see me (I was unaware) at one of these homes - this despite the fact of already having three sons and fostering four others.

 

The day came when, prior to an adoption being formally begun, I was to go and stay with them. I was to be delivered to them on a Saturday, sometime in (I think) January 1963. To avoid problems with the route, it was agreed to meet somewhere easy to find. The place chosen was the carpark area behind the main stand at Anfield. After getting lost in the snow, we eventually found my Dad-to-be freezing his nuts off on the street outside the ground. As I was handed over in good humour by my social worker, there was a massive roar as Liverpool had just scored (we discovered this later) and the singing started. I was hooked, and have been ever since. It was not long at all before I went to my first game (the first I can remember clearly was against Arsenal, but my elder adoptive brother insisted he had taken me to at least two before that).

 

Jesus Christ Fyds, you're not a silly old sod. That is an amazingly poignant story. That is a tough one to beat.

 

Great stuff mate.

[Ramón Benítez Hernández]

  New York Red said:

Count me in mate. Yep, it's by the Gold Coast. I know how to do the Mosque stuff.

 

Do you have a local Khat man?

 

 

I had no idea what Khat was, but thanks to Google, I do now.

 

If you're into that sort of stuff, I can't help you.

 

But if you want biatches, p0rn, heroin, coke, speed, acid, lsd, vhf, uhf, acdc, I can sort you out.

[R A Softlad]

  New York Red said:

Oh jeez. It wasn't Leeds was it? That was my first ever game for LFC.

 

Nope, twas St. Etienne

[New York Red]

  B.A.Baracus said:

I had no idea what Khat was, but thanks to Google, I do now.

 

If you're into that sort of stuff, I can't help you.

 

But if you want biatches, p0rn, heroin, coke, speed, acid, lsd, vhf, uhf, acdc, I can sort you out.

 

Just kidding mate. I've been as clean as a whistle for the last 20 years. I'm retired from all of that. I do recall that Khat man very findly though. It's strange to think now what that was all about.

 

The biatches could work out well though...

[New York Red]

  R A Softlad said:

Nope, twas St. Etienne

 

Domonique Rochteau. Great greeen shirts.

 

Dayum, them was the days...

[kopindian]

Michael Owen-98 world cup for me.

[sutty]

Ken De Mange

 

Liverpool reserves, late 70/early 80s with my dad

[jon_hall]

  R A Softlad said:

Nope, twas St. Etienne

 

Glory hunter...

 

Mine was because older brother was supporting Everton so i went the other way.

 

Thank f*** he didn't support Liverpool i might have been a blue

[Koogan]

Me and my equally Finnish cousin were corresponding in the early 70's and he kept on writing about the London teams, Palace and Spurs mainly. Little by little I started checking the league table and the name Liverpool was the most familiar one (due to the Beatles but I also remembered the FA Cup win in 1965). Then I read about Kevin Keegan in a pop magazine (a Finnish one, can't remember which one) and by the season 1973-74 I had become a Liverpool supporter. I started reading Goal magazine and all the dailies I could find, I listened to BBC World Service and watched Tipsextra in the Swedish TV.

Edited August 11, 2007 by Koogan

[Snookie]

Seeing Steve Heighway play for Ireland in 1970. Told my dad - who is a passionate MUFC fan - that I had to support the team he played for. He wasn't hugely pleased but he started to take my brother and I to games.

I didn't quite loose interest in the early 80s but I did become more interested in other things. I can remember coming home to watch the 85 European cup final and seeing the scenes of mayhem. I was utterly ashamed of what happened but also realised just how much the club meant to me. It wasn't the idiots club. It was mine.

[Jonesy]

  jon_hall said:

Glory hunter...

 

Mine was because older brother was supporting Everton so i went the other way.

 

Thank f*** he didn't support Liverpool i might have been a blue

 

 

we lived in hope Jon.......we lived in hope.

 

I blame my parents. My mother is an arm chair manc, as his her mother (the darkside of the family orginate from Stockport). My Dad had no interest in a sport.......so it was left to my granddad to show me the ropes. I can remember always looking forward to going round there on a saturdays in the late 70's. Radio 2 / World service catching the 2nd half of a game, full game if you were lucky. Thats Sport on 5Live for all of our younger readers! A the crackle of the radio, logs on the fire, cup of hot sweet tea in hand and a murray mint for afters! None of that wethers shiite in my day.

[don1980]

i asked my mother this question not so long ago as i couldn't remember. I was about 4/5 and in town with my mam when we past a sports shop and she seen a lovely red scarf and woolly hat in the window and went into the shop and bought them for me, she also told me that my old man (a hammer) threw them in the fire a few weeks later (C**T) because i was being bold, when i found out about this a few years back i said it to the oul fella in the pub and he said everything was true, i felt like dropping him!